Pusher II: With Blood On My Hands
Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: August 18, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
78
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Generally favorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
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8
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0
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80
Los Angeles TimesRobert Abele
The introduction of a baby that Tonny supposedly fathered feels worrisome initially...but in Refn's skilled street-realist hands, the child becomes a potent, wailing metaphor for Tonny's own dilemma of rudderless need. Read full review
80
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
There’s some shocking violence in Pusher II, but it’s a more expressive cinematic work, verging here and there on dreamlike surrealism. Read full review
75
New York PostV.A. Musetto
[Refn] mixes jittery hand-held camerawork, improvised dialogue and available light to create a nightmarish world of sex, drugs and horrific brutality that will turn off many viewers while delighting others. Read full review
80
The New York TimesNathan Lee
Where "Pusher" worked fresh texture and authenticity into a classic noir template, Pusher II reaches toward the mode of hyperrealist allegory perfected by the Dardenne brothers. Read full review
80
EmpirePatrick Peters
The breakneck pace, the seething sense of menace and the unflinching attitude to sex, drugs and violence coagulate into a nastily authentic take on the seediness and venality of modern villainy. Read full review
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)David Edelstein
Each film in Nicolas Winding Refn's mesmerizingly brutal Pusher trilogy can stand on its own, but it's fun to see all three and observe the way the bad guys in one become the sympathetic heroes (or anti-heroes) in another. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubNoel Murray
Pusher II works best when it's dwelling on the disconnect between Mikkelsen's lurid imagination and his disappointing reality, though it starts to fade when it becomes about the strained relationships of fathers and sons. Read full review
70
VarietyDeborah Young
Along with the continual build-up of tension and threatened (more than shown) violence, pic is notable for its brutal depiction of the sex industry. Read full review
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